With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

Brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have detailed temporary reductions in gray matter following prolonged isolation in Antarctica. Structural losses were most apparent in regions ...

You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth?

It may sound like a plot twist out of a science fiction novel, but researchers have detected mysterious radio signals coming ...

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of ...

Commuting to Concordia research station in Antarctica takes days—it’s more remote than the International Space Station. Here’s how to get there.

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict sea-level ...

If they hadn't paid attention to the fluctuating readings of Earth's ozone layer, humans would have probably died by now.

After a dramatic 1971 incident in which the sole medical doctor at a USSR station had to cut out his own appendix, some countries made appendectomies a requirement for their “winter-over” medical ...

Russian scientists have discovered the largest emperor penguin colony in recorded history near the Mirny Antarctic station, with a congregation of approximately 18,700 of the flightless birds, the ...